I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit ...

A “Rewind” PET trial converts post-consumer textiles into new polyester feedstock, offering early proof of scalable textile-to-textile recycling. JEPLAN The partners called the “Rewind” process one of ...

Polyester plastics, commonly found in synthetic textiles and plastic components of home appliances, are notoriously difficult to recycle. In a study recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

The new technique can help break mixed-fiber clothing back down into feedstock for future textiles. Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned. A ...

Gap Inc has signed an agreement with Syre, a textile-to-textile recycler founded by H&M Group, to use 10,000 tons per year of the company’s recycled polyester across its portfolio of brands. The ...

Sweden-based recycler Syre says it will work with global engineering and machinery firm ABB to explore technologies for industrial-scale textile recycling. ABB says a proposed Syre plant in Vietnam ...